International Women’s Day
8 March

“On International Women’s Day, let us all pledge to do everything we can to overcome entrenched prejudice, support engagement and activism, and promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.”

— UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

• 2017 Theme: “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030”

International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.

Abstract

Our modern society is driven by a culture of violence & materialism while the whole of human life is in a state of turmoil due to conflicts & violence in the society. Our world is divided disharmoniously; it is torn by social conflicts of different nations, groups of people and religious classes, so it is unsustainable. Human peace & spiritual values are decreasing at very fast rate resulting in division of humanity.

The crisis humanity faces today is a human crisis of Peace & social harmony and  this  can only be resolved by universal Peace Values & women’s empowerment.. Women are the born peace makers & Leaders for developing culture of peace & harmony in the families & society. Peace Education can initiate social changes and hence social development, by bringing about a change in attitude of the individual. It can bring about a change in the pattern of social relationships and thereby it can cause holistic human development.

Peace Education & Women plays an important role in creating awareness for building peace & promoting culture of peace & nonviolence in the pluralistic Society. The main objectives of 2nd   International women’s Rights Assembly is to create social awareness about women’s Rights for crime against women , empowering all women and girls and gender equality in 21^st century.The main objectives of the paper are:

1) To explore the Universal peace values Peace, Non- violence, Compassion, Respect, and Tolerance in the world religions for World Peace & oneness of humanity.

2) To promote Culture for Peace & interfaith harmony in the world through dialogues, cooperation & Respect to each other and   to build the bridges of Peace & harmony to create a Peaceful world.

Keywords Religions & Peace Values, Interfaith harmony, Culture of Peace &Harmony and   Oneness of humanit